FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930.
ORIENTAL CONCERT
SPLENDID EFFORT IN HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.
A NOTABLE SINGER,
SPANISH STRIKES.
SITUATION NOW GREATLY IMPROVED.
ONLY MINOR AFFAIRS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MEN WHO RULE THE AMBASSADOR'S SON
UNITED STATES.
Financiers, Publishers and Industrialists.
In the opinion of Mr. James W. Gerard, formerly United States Ambassador to Germany, 59 mon "rule the United States."
Madri, Yesterday. The strike situation all over the
Mr. Gerard compiled a list of country has greatly improved and normality is gradually, being res- these men recently for the New York Times, which asked him to 1:red. Oscar The general strikes in Seville, amplify a sentence in a pamphlet Alicante and Barcelona have been he wrote ondorging the crusade of Minor strikes continue,Lord Rothermero and Lord Beaver- settled. but an early return of all workers brook for Empire Free Trade and is expected.-Reater.
protection. In that pamphlet he
Even the most Hassan-steeped minarets and musk wallower in
felt contentedly roses would have arabesque in the basement of the Helena May yesterday, when Mrs. Crista Womack, with Mr. Asche as her guardian angel, pro- duced an "Oriental Phantasy" for
delectation of " the
docile audience.
3
It really is astonishing what one ean do with Amy Woodford Finden (of "Love Lyrics" fame) plus little light-fingered millinery and fow date-chewing maidens languish-
OR divans. ing
The stage ap. pointments were quite Cochranish, and had the lumination been left to the large paper lanterns and the оп the footlights, and economy malas been exercised, perfection would have been out-perfected. The little choral Mise-en-scene (pardon the critic's love of the cache) was charmingly born, wean-
AID FOR OPERA.
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GOVERNMENT TO MAKE A GRANT OF £17,500.
MR. SNOWDEN'S OFFER.
wrote:
AND LANDLADY.
Charge of False Pretences.
W. R. M. TILLEY.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
N°
E. A. S. M. A. CLUB.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Club Premises altuoted at No. 17, Queen's Road, from On a charge of incurring credit Central, will be closed as
November 30, 1930. by false pretences, William Roger Montgomerie Tilley (25), on the British Ambassador at Tokyo, appeared at West London Police! Court on October 4, and was re-
manded on bail.
of
By Order of the Committee of the Ex-Active Service Men's Association, Hong Kong, November 20, 1930.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
RAFT PROGRAMMES and
13th
1930,
Mrs. Maria Jones, proprietress Bramham- a private hotel at gardens, Earl's Court, said that in September Tilley and his wife call- "Give the 40 men who rule the an appointment at the Admiralty. ENTRY FORMS for the ed and stated that Tilley had get
United States ten years for tho that they had been looking for a development of this industrial em-flat in London, and had lost their Twelfth and Thirteenth Extra Race pira, (the British Empire) and no last train. They stayed the night. Meetings to be held on SATUR- country on earth could approach it Next day they said they would like DAY, 6th December, and SATUR- in per capita wealth."
December, to stay as paying guests. When DAY, Explaining why he, as an Ameri- she presented her bill for £4 1s. respectively, may be obtained at can, should write on the subject, 6d. Tilley gave her a cheque, not the Race Course, Hong Kong Club Mr. Gerard wrote "I offer as my his own, but it was returned by and Causeway Bay Stables, excuse the interest that America, the bank, Mrs. Tilley offered 籍 Entries will close at 12 o'clock" in common with all the world, has cheque of her own, but Mrs. Jones Noon on the following dates:- in the preservation of British replied that she must have money. The Tilleys left while Mrs. Jones prosperity." A substantial Government sub- ed, and nursed into a complete aussidy to opera was announced by Mr. American finance, industry, the man again until his arrest.
He fore- Philip Snowden to-day.
Evidence was given The opening was unconventional shadowed a revised agreement be-amusement field and journalism,
state others holding Miss Patricia Scott Little, looking tween the Postmaster General and but omits President Hoover and Tilley was adjudicated a bankrupt
national offices. like Nulomi in the cornfield, aidiel the B.B.C., whereby the Govern- forth from a sea of hats and lushed tent would grant £5,000 during year and thereafter faces, swinging a bronze censer in the present her hand. She waited just long £17,500 annually for five years, to- enough for the dawn to rise and wards the presentation of opera in burnish her cheeks and then dis-London and the Provinces. The
the remaining necessary appeared gracefully behind transparent curtains.
encu;
Peak Maidens.
It is surprising what good Belles des Orient the Peak maidens makel
London, Yesterday.
funds would
be provided by the B.B.C. and by private subscription. Reuter.
As Hello Fatima Miss Alwen Owen COTTON INDUSTRY.
Hughes demonstrated how the
gentle art of doing nothing on divan can be quite arresting, whilst Miss Ellen Ford attitudinised in her corner with a modesty that inter revealed Itself In her dancing. Her movements are lissom and grave.
"I
must
Newrich:
take my pocket book out. It will weigh me down."-Moustique, Charlerol.
though not entirely free of Miss Capell's exercises ("now girls-one. two, one two!") but her perfor- mance was one of the delights of the evening. The other delight was Mrs. Gregory's singing, of which more anon.
INVESTIGATIONS MADE BY MINISTERS.
LARGER UNITS?
London, Yesterday. Important results in the cotton industry are expected to follow the series of meetings at which Mr. J. R. Clynes and Mr. V. Graham are investigating at first hand the difficulties in all sections of the trade at Manchester to-day.
They interviewed representatives of the Master Spinners' Federation. after which it was officially stated that the discussion centred on the formation of larger units and the effect of external factors upon pru sperity. Reufer.
VOTE OF CENSURE.
GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE WITH
THE DOMINIONS.
NO EXTENSION OF TRADE.
London, Yesterday, Mrs. Womack sang **Siestn
The Conservative leaders have Time" full-heartedly and left no acale untouched, whilst Mra, Valen notified their electors that they will tine convinced us that it really move in the House of Commons at didn't matter."How Many A Cara- an early date a vote of censure on van" there passed so long as her the Government "for failure to purdah did not get in the way of formulate any effective proposals the vocal chords. Mrs. King for the extension of Empire trade danced with the verve of a Salome and the raft to consider and the tout ensemble, with one or offers of tho Dominions."-Reuter. two readily-forgiven blemshes, was most agreeable.
The dancers,
Miss Glendinning and Miss Gitting, could not have gyrated better for the head of a St. John.
A La Espagnol. Following half-time, came the other delight“- Mrs. D. H. Gregory, in the setting of a Valencia muni- cipal carnival ball, with shawls co the left of her and shawln. to the red right of her, piroutted on
Ehoco to the footlights and sang "Cuanto le. Qalero." The audi-
YOUNG PLAN.
the
GERMANY NOT. GOING TO
TEAR IT UP..
NO GUARANTEE GIVEN.
Berlin, Yesterday.
all
The list includes leaders in was out and she did not see the
and
Mr. Gerard explains the actuat
show that
August, with liabilities of £1,879 and no assets.-EL
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DIVORCE IN GREAT BRITAIN
"power behind the throne" is wielded by men whose wealth and the nation give them a permanent important industrial positions in influence in American life. States- me, he said, are usually shorn of Michaelmas Term List most of their power when they re- Shows Marked Increase.
tire.
The list, in the order given by Mr. Gerard, is as follows:----- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Andrew W. Mellon. J. P. Morgan, George F. Baker, banker John D. Ryan, copper magnate. Walter C. Tagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.
London, Oct. 18.
Eight hundred divorce suits, the majority of them undefended were on the list for hearing when the Michaelmas term opened at the Law Courts on October 13.
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This is the largest list of suits for many years and the proportion of wives seeking divorce against the number of husbands Henry Ford. Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, lum-asking for freedom
two to one. This is regarded as ber magnate.
Monday: 1st December, 1930. Monday, 8th December, 1930.
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AMERICAN
is well over CHEMICAL DIAMONDS
Myron C. Taylor, chairman, the result of the law which, for are equal to real diamonds in all res- pect. Cut glass like real diamonds. finance committee United States the past five years, has given Never become dull and can wear.for women equality in the matter of ever. Price per carat R.K. $5 nett. Steel Corporation.
Term C.O.D. The American Chemi- James A. Farrell, president cause for divorce,
P.O. Box 360, With this term completing the cal Diamond Coy. United States Steel Corp.
divorce división in Penang, Straits Settlements. Charles M. Schwab, chairman year for the
London, the average number of Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
Grace, Eugene C.
president divorce during the three years 1928, 1929 and 1930 is around Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
2,780 a year.
H. M. Warner and Aldoph Zukor, motion picture magnates.
William H. Crocker, banker. O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, railroad magnates.
president
The figures for the three years
re:---
1928: 2,596 (including 1,961 un- defended suits).
RAILWAY ECONOMY.
CURTAILMENT OF SERVICES.
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A serious curatilment of the 1929: 2,923 (including 2,094 un-facilities for passenger traffe on W. W. Atterbury,
defended suits).
the railways will begin next week, Pennsylvania Railroad.
Arthur Curtiss
1980: 2,839 (including 2,054 un-says a London" mail week paper. James, large
Some of these new steps are defended suits). holder of railroad accurities,
Casos taken at the Provincial nounced in the new official time Charles Hayden, financler.
contem- Daniel O. Jackling president Courts have risen, to about 2,000 tables and others are in Utah Copper Company.
yearly so that the total for the plation.
Week-end tickets bought, on Arthur γ. Davis, president whole country. is between 4,000
and 5,000 a ‘YOLT. The average Friday have been available for re- Aluminium Company of America.
0. M. Gossler, president Colum-rom 1921 to 1995 was 2,730, turn on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, was or Tuesday. In future they will bia Gas and Electric Corporation. while the pre-war average
not be available for return oil R. C. Holmes, president Texas only 656.
Statistics show that a large Saturday. Ticketa bought on Corporation, oil producer.
majority of divorces are sought Saturday will not be available for
return on the same day.
John J. Raskob,
bers).
The Du Pont family (seven mem- after 10 years of married life and in about 50 per cent of the cases Edward J. Berwind, financier.
that come before the courts, there Daniel Willard, president Balti-are no children.-United Press. more and Ohio Railroad,
Sosthenes Ben, chairman Inter- NEED FOR HOUSE national Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.
Walter S. Gifford, chairman American Telephone and Tele- graph Company.
Owen D. Young, chairman General Electric Company,
Gerard Swope, president General Electric Company.
OWNERSHIP.
More Sense of Security, Less Nerve Strain.
The excursion services are being curtalled and an Autumn service substituted.
Other methods of reducing ex- penditure are being seriously con- sidered by the railway companies. There is no doubt that they are contemplating proposals which will involve an all-round reduction of
wages. The present agreement ex- pires in November, and the com- panies will then place proposals before the men's Unions in the full Chicago, Oct. 11.
expectation that when the leaders The man who owns his home is see the situation in all its serious- a healthier Individual reas they will do as they did be- apt to be :
than the man who rents his fore and co-operate with the com- ing quarters, according to Dr. panies in an effort to prevent die- H. L. Bockwood, health commis aster.
Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan and Company,
Albert H. Wiggin, banker. Samuel Insull; electric power magnate.
The seven Fisher brothers, motor magnates.
Daniel Guggenheim and William Loeb, mining magnates.
Adolph S. Ochs, publisher. William Ranolph Hearst, publisher.
Medill Paterson, publishers..
sioner of Cleveland,
..
All Grades Affected.
Writing in a series of articles Wages are by far the largest for the National Association of item of expenditure, and in view Real Estate Boards, Dr. Rockwood of the serious dropping of the
ence hung on every word and the The Council of the Reich un-
G. W. Hill, president American pointed out that peace of mind traffic receipts the companies must plays an important part in the economise. Exactly what they applause given to this charming animously passed the Budget to-
health of modern man. The home will propose has not yet been set- soprano was every whit deserved. day, and also adopted the Bill re.Tobacco Company.
wzer has a sense of security tled, but there is little doubt that This lady from Sibu and Mom-garding the reduction of salaries
lacking to the renter. he declar men in the traffic grades as well as hajao has an exquisite voice, and of nerabers of the cabinet, civil dromatic expression which servants, and members of the
Robert R. McCormick and Joseph led, and is apt to be free from the shopmen will be affected.
much of the nerve strain that So far as the shopmen are con amply emphasises the innuendo of Reichstag.
gives the
tenant indigestion, cerned, different policies are being the song, and we can quite under. The possibility of Germany de-
Julius Rosenwald, merchant.
Insomnia, depression and bad adopted in preference to dis- stand how eagerly radio-audiences manding a moratorium under tho
Cyrus H.K, Curtis, publisher.
teath. D
isuals, while other rallways are in Manila ooked forward to her Young Plan was hinted by Dr.
Roy W. Howard, publisher.. People can be healthy in rot dismissing men in the shops. singing on Sunday evenings, Now Curtius in the council of the Reichi
No attempt was made by Mred quarters, of course, but very that she has made her home in in the course of a review of for Gerard to rank his selections ac frequently they are
not, Mr. Hong Kong, we hopa she will be elga affairs. He said that Ger cording to his opinion of their Rockwood said in drawing a plc persuaded often to delight us with many would not tear up the Young Importance, but he expressed the tare of the renter, often not lik her native airs, Plan, but they were never given belief, that as a class the bankers ing his habitat, out in questo rank and file want to meet the re
The programme concluded with guarantee that the Plan, could be a scene from the "kado," which carried out. No one yet knew exerted the greatest Influence, be amusement nightly, eating the demand for increases. The was really a decorative excuse for whether the financial reforma de Cause they controlled the purse wrong foods: In restaurants and leaders, however; know better than worried because he is getting no to imperil the good conditions under which rallwaymen work. where Hnancially,
compared with similar workers in other industries.
strings of the nation. “
Three Little Maide" and "Braid signed to put Germany's house in the Raven Hair, which Mrs. order would be adequate, or whe He declared that while all these Womack. Mrs. Valentine, and ther Germany might also have to men were too busy to seek politics! Mrs. Violet King sang in the best avail herself of the International office, their influente, financial, (n- tradition of the Savoyards provisions Included in the agreedustrial and semi-political, deter The entertainment offered was a ment, for the protection of her mined the men who should go into typical example of local amateur economie life (namely the office. talent (perhaps in frs: Gregory's moratorium)-Router. case rather above the average), and SMART
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